The Action and Adventure Cinema (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Tasker, Yvonne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This exciting collection addresses action and adventure from the silent to the contemporary period exploring diverse questions of aesthetics, industry and ideology. Action has established itself as one of the leading commercial genres of the New Hollywood cinema, generating extensive debate in the process.

Contributors consider how action might best be defined, how it has developed historically, and how it works formally. The critical reception and standing of action and adventure cinema is considered in relation to questions of national culture, violence and the 'art' of cinema.

Themes explored include genre and definitions; early action, sensation and melodrama; authorship and action; national and transnational action-adventure traditions; action aesthetics; spectacle and narrative; stars and bodies; class; gender; race and ethnicity.

Attempting to evaluate the significance of this type of filmmaking for both popular cinema and film studies, the book underlines the central place of action and adventure within film history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134564941
• Artikelnr.: 43072302

Autorenporträt

Yvonne Tasker

Inhaltsangabe

Hollywood Connection: Stardom and Spectacle in Transnational Action Cinema  17. Europeans in Action  18. Greek War Film as Melodrama: Women, Female Stars and the Nation as Victim  19. Spaghetti Western, Genre Criticism and National Cinema: Re-Defining the Frame of Reference Part 5: Action, Authorship and Industry  20. Genre and Violence in the Work of Kurosawa and Peckinpah  21. The Dirty Dozen: The Contradictory Nature of Screen Violence  22. 'It's aimed at kids - the kid in everybody': George Lucas, Star Wars and Childrens Entertainment  23. Man's Favourite Sport? The Action Films of Kathryn Bigelow  24. 'They call me action woman': The Marketing of Mimi Leder as a New Concept in the High Concept 'Action' Film